Dr Amal Nazzal

Dr. Amal Nazzal is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics at Birzeit University. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational studies where she was awarded the PhD Studentship in Organizational Studies to complete her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2013. Her research interests include decolonized organizational mechanisms and dynamics in organizations, indigenous theory in OS, indigenous organizing (Sumud), intersectionality, feminist organizing, social capital, social networking theory and new social media in organizations. She is also interested in new research methods such as digital ethnography and social media content analysis. In 2024, Dr. Amal was awarded the George Antonius Fellowship at St. Antony’s College at University of Oxford for her research about the structural and organizational transformations of the Palestinian organizational modes and modalities through the “NGOization” processes in the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Palestine.

Dr. Amal is interested in supervising Master’s and Ph.D. students taking a critical and/or interpretive perspective which is driven by a decolonial research agenda where a critical analysis of the colonial dimensions in our theories is the heartbeat of the research. She is interested in supervising students who are interested in contextualizing and indigenizing theories to better explore institutional and organizational structure, organizational agency, and social media mobilization, while using new research methods such as digital ethnography and social media content analysis.

She is an advisory board member at the Institute of Women Studies (IWS), BDS movement, and Right to Education campaign at Birzeit University. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Research and Human Relations, International Journal of Communication, and has written opinion pieces for Al-Shabaka, Metras, Institute for Palestine Studies, the Palestinian digital rights organization 7amleh, Middle East Monitor, Mondoweiss, and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. She has also participated in several webinars such as; Palestinian Digital Rights, The Epistemicide of the Palestinian Knowledge in the AUB, The Colonial Economy of Israel: Militarization and Cyberization, and others.

She has a Bachelor’s (2010) and a first Master’s Degrees (2012) from Birzeit University, and a second Master’s Degree (2013) and a Ph.D. degree in organizational studies from University in Exeter (2017).